EZ Dresden Challenge

June 11, 2012

I first fell in love with Dresdens when I saw the beautiful quilt on the cover of Material Obsession. (Remember, I’ve only been quilting a few years.) A year ago I bought an EZ Dresden ruler and made my first Dresden mini quilt – it was surprisingly easy!

This month the Salt Lake City Modern Quilt Guild is celebrating Darlene Zimmerman’s twentieth anniversary of developing EZ Quilting Rulers – including that EZ Dresden ruler I had so much success using – with the EZ Dresden Challenge. Go check out their page to see the details and prizes – LOTS of prizes. Seriously GOOD stuff, like a sewing machine!

The first stage of the celebration is a blog hop that will hopefully start to get you thinking about different dresden designs and ideas. I decided to focus on dots, inspired by that cover quilt from Material Obsession. Each quadrant of my dresden mini quilt is a different dot though. Also, each quadrant is composed of different shades of a solid.

I think I have been inspired to join the SLCMQG! I said to myself “when I move to America, I want to learn to quilt”. I moved from Australia two years ago and I’m quilting but I have alot more to learn.
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I love your fabric choices in this dresden (I’m always a sucker for reds!) — this blog hop has been so fun. I had never thought about there being so many interpretations of the dresden, and now I want to play around myself with one of these rulers! Thank you for the chance to win!

I have a Dresden quilt in mind. I recently bought a bundle of Kona solids and I think your posted example would be an absolutely perfect way to use them. Send those rulers to me! Hahahaha… Thanks for these fun giveaways. Lyn

I love the dots! I’m so excited to try my own Dresden soon. They’re so pretty. The first quilt I remember being super attached to as a kid was a grandmother’s fan quilt that my aunt made. I’d like to make a Grandmother’s Fan for my mom. She’d love it.

The Dresdan ruler would be a great tool for a new project…thanks for the chance to win. And thanks for your blog….the time and effort you put into it is really appreciated…a bright spot when I check my mail!!

I really like your dresdens on the dotty background. Thank you for the giveaway. I love the Material Obsession 2 book and hope to one day be skilled enough to tackle one of my faves in that book (I’m a fairly new quilter)

The color wheel with the variety of red and white dots is striking. I’ve been thinking about Dresden plates yet feel so unimaginative as look at all the guild projects. Thanks for the chance to win the EZ Dresden ruler.

SO many bright colors; just makes me happy looking at it. Who knew all those different dots would work so well together and be so fun! I’ve never done Dresdens before but I really admire them. I’ve got one cut out, ready to go, for my sampler quilt, so I can see how this ruler would really help!
Thanks for a chance to win–I would love a ruler!

thanks for the chance to win one of the dresden rulers. I’ve wanted to try them for some time but was caught in that ‘you cannot buy any more rulers till you finish a project…. but they kept calling to me. Then I found this challenge.

The Dresden Plate became my favorite as soon as I started quilting (a whole 1 1/2 yrs ago). I’m finally working on my 1st – a hand appliqued 25 plate as a wedding gift for my nephew. Very easy but lots of time. Been wanting to try different shades of solids so you’ve given me the way to combine a favorite and a “want to do”. Thanks for the idea and giveaway!

Here’s my chance to do 3 things I’ve been wanting to do….Actually do a dresden quilt, break out of square patterns, and be in some kind of contest with my work. Come on….pick someone from a tiny town in Texas….me!!!!

I have never made a dresden but all of these great colorful projects makes me think it is high time I try the EZ method! I would love to try a similar quilt to yours faith, it is so cheerful and beautiful!

I am working on my first quilt, and seeing so many designs and colors just makes my head spin–but in a good, excited way! I’m already dreaming of what to make next…but of course must finish what I have started first! This is really inspiring.

I have a box of unfinished Dresden plates (the centers are missing, anyone know how to put just centers in?) and I love them!! I also love polka dots all of a sudden, so I think I may pick up one of these Dresden things today!
Thanks,
nancy

A dresden has been on my list of things to attempt for quite a while! I love your interpretation and especially am in love with how you used the different polka dot prints for the background. Very visually interesting and beautiful!

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